The world ended. No, it didn’t
end in 2012 when the Mayans had allegedly foretold it would. When December 21st
of that year came, there was panic, yes. Many people sold everything they had (or
rather donated it) and gathered on various places in wait of the Apocalypse.
But the Apocalypse never came. They were ruined; they didn’t have anywhere to
go. Many new homeless shelters were opened. We dodged another bullet, just like
the ones before.A few years later they
said that the calculations were wrong – that it was going to end on December 12th
2021. When the date came, it was the same story all over again – there was no
Apocalypse; just a bit of chaos on the streets, people running scared and
thousands of ruined fools looking for a place to live. New wave of homeless
shelters, the economy took another hit, but we survived. In the years to come
we would prosper. We would live better and better, absolutely blind to what was
happening around us. Nature was changing. We killing her, little by little –
river by river, forest by forest. At one point we tried repairing the damage,
but it was too late – the deed was done.

The world ended. It wasn’t an
Apocalypse – it didn’t happen in one day. There was no Final Rupture – good people
didn’t go to Heaven. We all stayed here – the good, the bad, the ugly. A solar
flayer didn’t wipe out our technology. A super-volcano didn’t erupt to change
the climate and hide the sun. The Earth didn’t open up to devour us. Nothing of
the sort. The world didn’t end in one day. It was ending for decades. But nobody
saw it. We were polluting more and more and more. We were cutting the trees to
make profit. We extracted natural oils. Just for profit, and the profit of a
few, at that. We could’ve found better energy source, could’ve used cleaner
technologies. But that would mean less profit and they didn’t want that. No!
They liked feeling in control, feeling in power. All the world did their biding
(still does, even now). It escalated slowly – like the drops of water falling
on a stone – it would take many years, but they would erode it. Slowly but
steadily we killed nature. We were arrogant. They were arrogant. And we simply
let them. Billions of people left a few (I’m not sure how many) to rule them,
to take decisions for them and to guide them to self-annihilation. But I think
it was the people’s fault – their blindness and ignorance were all that made it
possible. If they had been just a little more involved in who was controlling
their lives and why. But they weren’t. Man’s ignorance was his greatest
downfall…